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When a tornado touches down, and the sirens begin to wail, adrenaline kicks in. For many of us, our path to safety is clear: get to the shelter and hunker down. But for the members of our families with difficulty getting around, or acting on their own—children, those with disabilities, and the elderly—that path isn’t always so straightforward. Speed and mobility are usually luxuries during an emergency. Cognitive challenges can make it difficult to process warnings and unfolding events. It’s the limitations of ourselves and those whom we care about that require a different level of preparedness. It requires us…
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Of all the major disasters that could happen in the near future, a pandemic is one of the most likely. It’s a simple historical fact that pandemics happen on a regular basis, and scientists believe they are going to become more common in the 21st century.Why? Partly because we live in an urbanized world where someone with a contagious disease can hop on a plane and spread it to another country immediately. Not to mention all the gain-of-function research being done in labs around the world. What if a dangerous virus leaks out of the lab?Many experts believe that’s what…
With President Trump signing an executive order aimed at rescheduling marijuana’s classification as a Schedule I drug to Schedule III, medical marijuana will likely soon be legal at the federal level as well as the 40 states that already allow it. So what will that to to Section 922(g)(3) and its prohibition on gun possession by “unlawful” users of drugs? In the case of Ali Danial Hemani, whose case will be taken up by the Supreme Court next year, not much. Hemani is accused of possessing guns as a recreational user of marijuana, and the…
